Leo ?Cepicky graduated from the East Bohemian Conservatoire in Pardubice in 1985 under Professor Ivan Straus. He started his promising career in his early teens,...continue...
Recording information: Martinu Hall, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague (09/01/2013/09/16/2013)....continue...

"You have to take your hat off to someone who can plan a recital CD with the imaginative insight of the investigative musicologist, and then...continue...
Recording information: Martinu Hall, Academy of Music, Prague, Czech Republic (07/15/2013-07/16/2013)....continue...

Bohuslav Martinu produced a huge and diverse catalogue of chamber music. Of his three cello sonatas, the first is the most dramatic; the two that...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (01/2013)....continue...

Dreams, illusions, nightmares, tender and formidable images: all this can be heard on the new, third GENUIN CD by the Japanese flutist Atsuko Koga. From...continue...
Recording information: Schloss Britz, Germany (03/03/2013-03/05/2013)....continue...

A lovely and engaging program of five works for violin and viola are winningly performed by Evgenia-Maria Popova and Dimitar Pentov. Dimitar Penkov is known...continue...
Recording information: NDR-Hannover (01/2013)....continue...

Works for clarinet and piano The Young Austrian clarinetist Benjamin Feilmair was named 'Bank Austria Artist of the Year 2013/14'. Music that sits on the...continue...
Recording information: Schloss Weinberg, Kefermarkt, Austria (10/30/2013/10/31/2013)....continue...

Solo Musica presents the Rodrieg Ensemble on an album that explores the dawn of modern classical music and its continuing legacy with three late works...continue...
Recording information: Sofreson Studios, Paris, France....continue...

Founded by flutist Marya Martin in 1984, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival (BCMF) is one of the leading chamber music festivals in the US. This...continue...
Recording information: Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Bridgehampton, New Y (07/29/2012-08/19/2012)....continue...

Martinu's mature orchestral works are now a mainstay in classical repertoire. But, the orchestral music he wrote between his late teens and early thirties is...continue...
Recording information: Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall, Polish Radio, Warsaw (12/19/2012-12/21/2012)....continue...

This music comes from the Exiles' Café, a place both real and metaphorical where the travelers of the world gather to find a home away...continue...
Recording information: Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia (09/12/2012-09/14/2012)....continue...

The operatic world of Martinu is the stage for a whole glorious gallery of original ways and means, compositional and technical alike, as well as...continue...
Recording information: Brno Stadion studio (05/31/1973-11/16/1983); Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (05/31/1973-11/16/1983)....continue...

Notable for their rhythmic verve and unpredictability, ingratiating melodies and elegiac slow movements, these four works form a substantial contribution to the piano trio repertoire...continue...
Recording information: Cesky rozhlas Plzen, Czech Republic (08/30/2010-09/03/2010)....continue...

Expedition Audio Recommended...This is great music, and it is performed note-perfect. On the front cover of the CD booklet reads "Opus 1?. I hope that...continue...
Recording information: Lefrak Concert Hall, Queens College, New York; The Reci (2011-01-18_2011-01-19&2011-)....continue...

Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1990, is one of the most highly regarded flute soloists in the world. With a half-dozen...continue...
Recording information: Curtis Hall, The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphi (06/08/1999-06/11/1999)....continue...

Ranging from 1927 to 1959, the year of Martinu's death, these four works reveal his unceasing versatility in chamber repertoire. La revue de cuisine, heard...continue...
Recording information: SWR Studio, Freiburg, Germany (10/25/2009-10/26/2009)....continue...

This hybrid multichannel SACD from Praga features a collection of 'Rococo' variations for cello and piano. In works that span several centuries, cellist Jeremy Findlay...continue...
Recording information: Prague, St. Vavrinec Church....continue...

To graciously round off his time as conductor of the National Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller has chosen for his sixth album a composer he...continue...
Recording information: Henry Le Bouf Concert Hall, Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR (06/27/2011-07/01/2011)....continue...

A program of 20th century masterpieces for flute and piano is performed by Wolfgang Schulz, principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic....continue...
Recording information: Studio Baumgarten, Vienna....continue...

American Record Guide, September / October 2012This is a very attractive program. The gorgeous works by Smetana and Dvorak are reason alone to want this...continue...
Recording information: Westvest90-church, Schiedam, The Netherlands....continue...

On the morning on 7 July 2011 the agencies brought the sad news that one of the legends of 20thcentury music had passed away. Josef...continue...
Recording information: Domovina Studio, Prague....continue...

This recording presents Schubert's famous Arpeggione Sonata, together with several other works by Central European composers. The theme "Central Europe" thus threads right through. On...continue...
Recording information: Radiostudio Zürich (09/21/2009-09/23/2009)....continue...

Onyx presents the first complete CD cycle of Martinu's symphonies, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jirí Belohlávek. These works, which are a major...continue...
Recording information: Barbican Hall, London, England (10/2009-05/2010)....continue...

International Record Review, January 2012It will hardly come as a surprise that this is ensemble playing of the highest standard from performers of immense experience...continue...
Recording information: Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie Berlin, Germany....continue...

The first complete recording of Martinu°'s string trios, giving insight into the composer and his development; his first string trio was only rediscovered in 2005....continue...
Recording information: The Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, England (06/19/2009-06/21/2009)....continue...